We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …

participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …

Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …

Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …

Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …

Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …

We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …

., that women's participation is falling due unavailability of steady gainful employment. The high unemployment rate and … industry-wise composition of total employment provide suggestive evidence that women's participation is falling as women are … likely to be displaced from employment by male workers. We show that women's employment is likely to suffer more than men …

stagnant employment creation from 2004-05 onwards. Our analysis suggests that India needs to focus on creating rural non …Mainstream literature attributes the decline in female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) in India between 2004 … labour demand. We find that female employment is highly responsive to local labour demand, but not male employment. The …